A Regional Partnership to Improve Outcomes Through Fatherhood Engagement

Study Summary

Montefiore will engage fathers in families at risk of substance misuse in the Bronx and neighboring communities. Families will be referred from Bronx and neighboring community-based child welfare systems, substance use disorder (SUD) treatment providers, and medical providers if identified at risk of substance use concerns and will be randomly assigned to receive services as usual as part of the comparison group, or to receive enhanced services as part of the program group. Enhanced services include: (1) Motivational Enhancement; (2) referral to Healthy, Empowered, Resilient, and Open (HERO) Dads fatherhood engagement program; (3) Contingency Management; and (4) Case Management.

Primary Outcome

Child well-being will be assessed by the Child Behavior Checklist. This is a standardized self-report measure widely used in the measure of child behavior and child well-being. Separate forms are used for children aged 1.5-5, and 6-18. The questionnaire is completed by the caregiver using a series of Likert scales (0=absent, 1=sometimes, 2=often occurs). There are 113 questions, measuring a series of internalizing (e.g., anxious/ depressed, depressed, somatic complaints) and externalizing (e.g.,

Conditions Studied

Interventions

• BEHAVIORAL Case Management
• BEHAVIORAL Contingency Management
• BEHAVIORAL Motivational Enhancement
• BEHAVIORAL HERO Dads Fatherhood Program

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